Saturday, November 17, 2012

Hap Hap Happiest Christmas

And since we started our Christmas shopping today at the Galleria, I'm officially in the Christmas spirit -- as much as I hate to admit it considering the turkey hasn't even been killed for this year and I've yet to do my grocery shopping for the big meal. Too much?

And since I am in the Christmas spirit, and since half of my Christmas shopping is already complete, Brandon and I decided that we actually want to enjoy Christmas this year.

We're simplifying the way we do Christmas with each of our families {one gift for around a set price for each person} and keeping it simple this year. No extravagant gifts, no crazy expensive Christmas cards, no driving to the ends of the earth to find "the" gift and no getting mad and overwhelmed at this special season. We're really trying to focus on what this season is all about.

So, I decided to make a little Christmas bucket list for this year -- our first Christmas in our new {for real new with all this new construction!} house -- and I really want us to stick to it.